The EastSouthNorthWest Blog has published an English translation of the first media interview (Chinese) with Yang Jinggui:
In Wudian Middle School, Changfeng county, Anhui province, two students fought in a classroom but the teacher did nothing to stop them. Afterwards, one student lapsed into unconsciousness and then died. This incident was exposed in the media and drew a great

David Bandurski of China Media Project has written a satirical piece in the style of George Carlin, who died last month, for The China Beat blog. The piece, according to the blog, is a riff on the idea of banned words in China:
There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese language. Fortunately, basic literacy requires only about three to four thousand of these words, which makes